Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members and guests, thank you for the opportunity to speak before you. I join you from North Vancouver, the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh. I lead the CHFCA, the voice of Canada's fast

Natural Resources committee  Grey hydrogen, just so everybody is aware of it, is hydrogen typically made from natural gas where there is nothing done to manage the CO2 that is emitted in that process. That's the way most hydrogen is produced today. That is not what we are about in the CHFCA. We recognize th

Natural Resources committee  As I think Grace and Rob mentioned as well, there is the idea of credits. If you look at what happened to get the funding together for the stations in B.C., part of it was grants from the federal and provincial governments. However, a big part of that funding was from the sale of

Natural Resources committee  I'm not an expert on—

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry?

Natural Resources committee  There are technical challenges, but they are all addressable. I think the utilities are determined to work through those.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, thank you. Definitely, without a question, the cost to produce clean hydrogen today—and I'll use the term “clean hydrogen”—is higher than the cost to produce grey hydrogen. However, that is in the control of government. That's what policies such as the price on carbon and t

Natural Resources committee  Again, I do not promote grey hydrogen. We're talking about clean hydrogen. Clean hydrogen includes what is sometimes referred to as blue hydrogen. We think all those are very viable. There should be competition. We're going to need all of them. In fact, using the resources, as

Natural Resources committee  Sorry.

Natural Resources committee  They also agree that we need hydrogen from all sources.

Natural Resources committee  We've been out talking, and we would agree that hubs will attract economic investment. That's based on what we're seeing internationally. Hydrogen valleys are called clusters, but generally what we're talking about is two or more companies getting together and sharing a common

Natural Resources committee  You're going to see hydrogen projects moving forward, for example, the NRCan project in Bécancour. That includes an 88 megawatt hydrogen generation system. That's great, and it's going to be that scale that is going to produce cost-effective hydrogen, but in and of itself, it's n

Natural Resources committee  To Germany I would add Japan and Korea, which are also very significant markets. We're well positioned to service them from B.C., as we're well positioned to serve the European market out of Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. It's an enormous opportunity. We are already exportin

Natural Resources committee  I will phrase it by saying that 75% of our energy today is derived from fossil fuels without any carbon management. It is a huge challenge to start moving that to clean alternatives. We need them all. We need renewable natural gas. We need hydrogen. We need clean power. If you lo

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, honourable members, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Mark Kirby, president and CEO of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. We're based in Vancouver, the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, but I'm joining you today from